>I think -- after very carefully *not* ordering another 5L
>E-6 kit
> from Adorama since the last one they sent me was short
> dated (only
> 4 months left on the concentrate shelf life when it
> arrived) -- I
> just got a bad 5L E-6 kit from B&H.

> I can't be sure, since I mix partial kits, keeping the
> concentrates
> out of vacuum and drawing them from the bottles with clean
> syringes.
> This isn't, of course, the Kodak Approved procedure and I
> am pretty
> sure that consequently, Kodak won't be too eager to help
> me.  But
> the first run of film I did in this kit, about a month
> ago, was
> fine -- and generally I can keep a kit for well over a
> year using
> this procedure, if I have to, with no problem with the
> developed
> film.  Today's tanks of film (sadly I ran two at once)
> showed all
> the signs of exhausted first developer.  There was a good
> strong
> vacuum when I opened the bottles, so that's not it -- and
> it was
> not particularly hot where they were stored, either, and I
> know
> I got the mixtures right and times/temps were correct.

> I wonder when the last time Kodak made the 5L E6 kits was.
> Has
> anyone else received a bad one lately?  With bad results
> from
> both B&H and Adorama I'm not even sure where to turn for a
> new
> one.

> --
> Thor Lancelot Simon
> t...@rek.tjls.com
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> at the UNIX
>     prompt only to realize too late that they have removed
> the wrong
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